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Mantegna’s Camera degli Sposi, completed in 1474, is a significant Renaissance fresco within the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua. The room employs *buon fresco* techniques to create an immersive illusion of space, notably through its innovative oculus that mimics a real architectural feature. It showcases...
The San Zeno Altarpiece is a triptych painted by Andrea Mantegna between 1456 and 1460 for the Basilica of San Zeno in Verona. Its central section presents the Virgin and Child with saints within a classical architectural setting that continues across the separate panels, creating the impression of...
The Ovetari Chapel frescoes were a Renaissance mural cycle created in the Church of the Eremitani in Padua by Andrea Mantegna and several other artists beginning in the late 1440s. The program depicted episodes from the lives of Saint James and Saint Christopher, and Mantegna’s surviving designs dem...
Andrea Mantegna's Agony in the Garden is a small tempera painting produced around 1455-1456 and now held by the National Gallery in London. It depicts Christ praying in Gethsemane while three disciples sleep below and soldiers approach through a rocky landscape. The panel is generally associated wit...
The Polyptych of Saint Luke is an altarpiece painted by Andrea Mantegna in the 1450s for the church of Santa Giustina in Padua and now preserved in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. Its separate panels present Saint Luke with other saints arranged within a unified architectural framework. The work i...
